A Ball For A Débutante A ball for a débutante differs in nothing from all other balls excepting that the débutante "receives" standing beside the hostess, and furthest from the entrance, whether that happens to be on the latter's right or left.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Yer see, Andy, it’s bobservation makes all de difference in niggers.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

We have already become acquainted with the idea that a day dream is not necessarily conscious, that there are also unconscious day dreams.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He says that it is concluded among merchants, that where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers again, and therefore that the manufacture of cloath of England will never come to esteem again; that, among other faults, Sir Richard Ford cannot keepe a secret, and that it is so much the part of a merchant to be guilty of that fault that the Duke of Yoke is resolved to commit no more secrets to the merchants of the Royall Company; that Sir Ellis Layton is, for a speech of forty words, the wittiest man that ever he knew in his life, but longer he is nothing, his judgment being nothing at all, but his wit most absolute.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

What a sorry dispatch these great persons give to business What is there more to be had of a woman than the possessing her Where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Where a piece of the Cross is Where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers Where I expect most I find least satisfaction
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The grave doth gape and doting death is near; Therefore exhale.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

At Castiglione a firm stand was again taken by the fleeing Austrians, but Augereau forced the position against a defense double in numbers and for which he was afterward created Duke of Castiglione in memory of his exploit.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

"That sounds quite as dismal, does it not?
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

It cost you a dollar, did it not?"
— from Robert Coverdale's Struggle; Or, on the Wave of Success by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

When the date of destruction is known, it is given; when a destruction date is not given, it presumably was some time prior to 1969, when the City's Architectural Inventory was prepared.
— from A Virginia Village by Charles Alexander Stewart

A darker departure is near, The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier.”
— from Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison

Great discredit and deep divisions, if nothing else.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

CHAPTER LXIX A darker departure is near, The death drum is muffled, and sable the bier CAMPBELL After a sleepless night, the first dawn of morning found Waverley on the esplanade in front of the old Gothic gate of Carlisle Castle.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 2 by Walter Scott

A decided difference is noticed between the book-plates of the Northern and the Southern Colonies.
— from American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples by Charles Dexter Allen